Cherry Lane Theatre has announced casting for the final production of the Obie award-winning MENTOR PROJECT now in its 20th season. Sam Chanse's THE OPPORTUNITIES OF EXTINCTION is being presented at Cherry Lane (38 Commerce St.) from March 28 - April 7,2018, it has been announced by Seri Lawrence and Janio Marrero, Cherry Lane's Co-Artistic Directors. Angelina Fiordellisi is Cherry Lane's Founding Artistic Director. Ms. Chanse is mentored by recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts playwriting fellowship and the Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright Award, Migdalia Cruz.
Five-time Obie Award-winning theater company Clubbed Thumb (Maria Striar, Producing Artistic Director; Michael Bulger, Associate Artistic Director) is proud to announce the line-up for SUMMERWORKS, its annual series of new plays. Now in its 23rd season, SUMMERWORKS will run May 19 through June 30 at The Wild Project (195 E 3rd Street) in Manhattan, and will feature productions of three new plays: TIN CAT SHOES by Trish Harnetiaux and directed by Knud Adams; WILDER GONE by Angela Hanks; and PLANO by Will Arbery and directed by Taylor Reynolds.
New York City's Drama Desk-nominated Parallel Exit returns to the Voorhees Theatre as part of the New York City College of Technology's Theatreworks Program, to present the world premiere of THE FINAL REEL, from March 22-24, 2018 at 8:00pm each night, with an additional 2:00pm matinee on March 24, at the Voorhees Theatre, 186 Jay Street, Brooklyn. Tickets are $20 general admission ($15 children/student/senior) and are available online at finalreel.brownpapertickets.com.
New York City based theatre podcast, Your Program Is Your Ticket, presents a special series of theatre interviews with artists from the 2018 Frigid Festival in New York. Award-winning playwright and podcast creator, Sean Chandler, hosts the interviews which include playwrights, directors, and actors, and features local, national, and Canadian artists. Episodes 51, 52 and 53 were just released and they feature artists from a wide range of Frigid shows including The Magicians Assistant, Artemisia's Intent, and mOTHER, a play, among others.
Rabbit Hole is the first production of Breach Once More 2018-2019 season. Rabbit Hole is a family drama that charts a grieving family through a empathic search for comfort in the darkest of places and a path that will lead them back into the light of day. Becca and Howie Corbett have everything a family could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. The entire family finds themselves lost as they attempt to recovery from the loss of their son. The Corbett's have become strangers in their own home; inhabiting isolated space.
One Eyed Jacks welcomes, for one night only, Alexis Michelle, one of the last queens left standing on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9, in her new one woman show ALEXIS, I AM!
The Mermaid Hour is a journey into the complexities of parenting, one of the most challenging and rewarding undertakings of the human experience. The Mermaid Hour's mixed race family negotiates a tween child's gender transition and opposing parenting styles. The play reflects the spectrum of the world we live in with a diverse cast, showcasing varying sexual orientations. The beauty of the play lies in its ability to resonate with all types of families. It's heartwarming, humorous and poignant.
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is deconstructed and reinvented in The Dream Project. Yonder Window Theatre Company's multilingual, interdisciplinary piece speaks to the current climate of North America. The production is a collaboration between artists from Mexico, United States, and Canada and includes Spanish, French, and English text.
New York City based theatre podcast, Your Program Is Your Ticket, presents a special series of theatre interviews with artists from the 2018 Frigid Festival in New York. Award-winning playwright and podcast creator, Sean Chandler, hosts the interviews which include playwrights, directors, and actors, and features local, national, and Canadian artists.
Undermain Theatre presents Whither Goest Thou America: A Festival of New Play Readings. Four weeks of staged readings of new American plays examining the current American Landscape. Each week of the series will focus on a different playwright and play with readings of the play by an ensemble cast and the playwright in attendance for discussion of the work every Saturday night. Audiences will have the opportunity to return each week of the series to experience a new work and author examining the American experience and asking the question, "How did we get here and where are we going?"
THE CHEKHOV DREAMS, a dark romantic comedy by John McKinney, will conclude its highly acclaimed limited run tonight (Saturday) at The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row, 410 West 42 Street.
THE CHEKHOV DREAMS, a dark romantic comedy by John McKinney, will conclude its highly acclaimed limited run this Saturday evening, February 17th at The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row, 410 West 42 Street.
Composer Dan Furman has reworked his first musical, Impossible But True, and is preparing to present it starting in April - first in Brooklyn then across the river in Manhattan.
The Okoboji Summer Theatre (OST) is proud to announce the nine productions for its 2018 season:
GODSPELL (By John-Michael Tebelak & Music By Stephen Schwartz)
LEAVING IOWA (By Tim Clue and Spike Manton)
I OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES (By Neil Simon)
ANNIE (By Thomas Meehan & Music By Martin Charnin & Charles Strouse)
THE MIRACLE WORKER (By William Gibson)
NOT NOW, DARLING (By Ray Cooney and John Chapman)
A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING (By Rodgers & Hammerstein II)
OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS (By Joe DiPietro)
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE (By Richard Morris & Dick Scanlan. Music By Jeanine Tesori, & Lyrics By Dick Scanlan)
Your Program Is Your Ticket (YPIYT), the popular theatre podcast that interviews regional and international theatre artists was at the sold-out opening night of We The People: The Anti-Trump Musical at Stage 773 in Chicago.
THE CHEKHOV DREAMS, a dark romantic comedy by John McKinney, is set to officially open tomorrow evening, February 3rd at The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row,410 West 42 Street.
Called "hilarious" by Wired, the award-winning hit show TRUTH VALUES: ONE GIRL'S ROMP THROUGH M.I.T.'S MALE MATH MAZE is also a serious exploration of the world of elite mathematics and the challenges women face in math and science. The story follows NYC Writer/Performer and "Recovering Mathematician" Gioia De Cari's adventures as a math Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bewitched by the formal mathematical notion of Truth, she struggles with the clash of her personal reality in a world that is not binary.
In this joyful romance of gender roles and expectations, Orlando the man wakes up, after a particularly wild night in 17th-century Constantinople, to find himself a woman! She abandons herself to three centuries of navigating love, desire, and the world from an entirely different perspective. Oft described as the most charming love letter in literature - written by Woolf to Vita Sackville-West - Sarah Ruhl brings the novel to life on stage in a grand, epic adventure that transcends time, place, and gender.
